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by Cristin Terrill | Sep 12, 2018 | News
Congratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo! Elizabeth Acevedo’s stunning debut novel in verse, The Poet X, has been named to the longlist for the 2018 National Book Award in the category of Young People’s Literature. The Poet X is the story of Xiomara, a young woman...
by Cristin Terrill | Sep 11, 2018 | Blog
It’s no accident that my new middle grade novel, Merci Suárez Changes Gears (Candlewick Press, Sept 2018) opens on picture day at Seaward Pines Academy. Uy! When I think back to my school days at P.S. 22 in Queens, there weren’t many humiliations greater than that....
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by Cristin Terrill | Jun 4, 2018 | News
The Author Village wants to say a big congratulations to our own Elizabeth Acevedo, winner of the prestigious 2018 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry for her amazing debut novel The Poet X! The Horn Book Award has only one criteria — excellence — and...
